Nature’s way
— My mother has a name for this kind of weather. She calls it “germ weather”. The kind of weather, she says, that you catch colds in. Spare a thought for…”
My mother has a name for this kind of weather. She calls it “germ weather”. The kind of weather, she says, that you catch colds in.
Spare a thought for Gary then, one of the managers at work, who was all set for escaping these miserable climes in favour of the blessed sun of Cancun, Mexico. His holiday was cancelled because of the extreme weather conditions over there right now.
Hurricane Wilma was until very recently the most intense hurricane on record, and Cancun took a direct hit.
All in all, it’s been an horrendous year for natural disasters, what with Katrina in Lousiana / Mississipi, the Kashmir earthquake and the East Asian Tsunami. Despite the technological revolution, we cannot control nature.
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
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